USAGE:In almost all cases, pulseaudio should be run as a normal user daemoni.e. NOT a system wide daemon. It will be usually started by the desktopenvironment (KDE, XFCE, MATE) when the user logs in. In general, there isnothing more the user needs to do (configuration for particular devices orcircumstances notwithstanding).

If necessary, pulseaudio may be started manually with: /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11or /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-kde

In the EXTREMELY RARE case that pulseaudio needs to run as a system widedaemon, the /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio script is provided. It is not used at allin the usual case, as above, in which pulseaudio runs as a normal user daemon.Additionally, in the system wide daemon mode only, pulseaudio will need apulse group/user to run as. This may be done with: groupadd -g 216 pulse useradd -u 216 -g pulse -d /var/run/pulse -m pulseSee http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt for details on the uid/gid assignments.